A Philippine lawyer filed a complaint before the Manila prosecutor's office on Tuesday accusing Pope Benedict XVI and an archbishop of swindling, teaching immoral doctrines and public disorder.

According to lawyer Elly Lao Pamatong, as quoted on GMANews.tv, the Pope "has been defrauding billions of innocent members of the human race by telling mythical and deceitful stories" that "have proximately caused the herein complainant and billions of other victims to turn over one-tenth of their incomes" to the Pope, Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales "and their accomplices."

The attorney once ran for the presidency but was disqualified as a nuisance candidate. In 2004, he was arrested on a charge of committing a "spike attack" on Manila roads.

Pamatong added, "In other words, Ratzinger is the mastermind of an international criminal syndicate or racket wherein the innocent members of the Christendom are forced to run over trillions of dollars to the pockets of Ratzinger in the hope that the Pope will save them from being thrown into a boiling lake of fire and in detrimental reliance to Ratzinger's misrepresentation that the Jewish Old Book was actually written or, at least inspired, by God."

He also accused the Catholic Church of disturbing the peace and quiet of non-Catholics in the Philippines by putting loud speakers outside churches and with bells that frequently ring during masses.

"True to form as one of Hitler's former killers and soldiers, Ratzinger is forcing even non-Catholics to listen to his false and misleading doctrines through oppressively loud sound systems designed to brainwash all humans through the airwaves," Pamatong said in his complaint.

Meanwhile, the Archdiocese of Manila said it would be up the prosecutor's office to "determine the merits" of the case against Archbishop Rosales.

The office of the papal nuncio has not reacted to the suit.